JamesG..no it cannot..it would have to be 300 meters spanning craft...but it could carry very rapidly the pieces of a bigger ship to orbit...the OBERON that I mentioned before. There a team of trained builder/astronauts could assemble it ready for the crew.

Remember that your thrust line (direction you want to accelerate in) is not often aligned with the best position for your solar panels. Your solar arrays and your propulsion system needs to be able to track independently of each other.

Can't you rotate the ship that the panels are to the sun..albeit ship is moving into certain direction..in space the air doesn't exist ..so it should matter where the thrusters point when it moves...unpowered....oh I get it...the ion thrusters...what if the panels rotated and turned in between the catamaran hulls...like a sail...sorta ?